Karl Marx Cigars

(Reading Eagle) The author of "The Communist Manifesto" and "Das Kapital" may never have known it, but cigars bearing his name were manufactured in Reading.
The Commonwealth Cooperative Association, a Socialist collective formed in 1898, made Karl Marx Cigars, according to labels on rare cigar boxes in the collection of Earl Ibach of Womelsdorf.
Marx's portrait appears on the underside of the cigar box lid, above the label "Economist." Continued

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